这里在建什么?技术与组织建构主义研究中的社会行动、物质性与权力

What’s Under Construction Here? Social Action, Materiality, and Power in Constructivist Studies of Technology and Organizing

ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT ANNALS · 2010
被引 447
人大 AFT50ABS 4*

中文导读

梳理了技术实施的社会建构研究中的五种视角(感知、解释、挪用、制定、对齐),指出它们在社会现象、建构过程、分析层次上的差异,并呼吁学者更直接地处理物质性与权力问题。

Abstract

Over the past two decades, organizational scholars have increasingly argued that technology’s affects on organizations are socially constructed. Constructivists who study implementation generally hold that organizational change emerges from an ongoing stream of social action in which people respond to a technology’s constraints and affordances, as well as to each other. Although most students of technology and organizing generally agree on the ontology of constructivism, there are considerable differences in what scholars mean when they say that a technology’s affects are socially constructed. We show that research on the social construction of implementation clusters into five coherent perspectives, which we call perception, interpretation, appropriation,enactment, and alignment. The perspectives differ with regard to the social phenomena they study and the processes by which they claim that construction occurs. The perspectives also focus on different phases of the implementation process and operate at different levels of analysis. After elucidating each perspective, we argue that students of technology and organizing could more directly engage issues central to organizational theory if they grappled with materiality and power, which they have heretofore downplayed in an attempt to counteract the field’s earlier tendency toward technological determinism.

组织理论技术社会学社会建构主义信息技术与组织